Emet News Service

I Say Terrorist, You Say Militant ... Let's Call Reporting Off. A caution signal about news media reliability regarding Arab-Israeli coverage has long been the use of "militant" as a sanitizing substitute for "terrorist" in describing attackers of Israeli non-combatants. Terrorism, defined by the   read more ...

Summary ... Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of [IBM and the Holocaust][1]. This article is based on research from [Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict][2] (Dialog Press). His latest book is [The Farhud: Roots of   read more ...

Israel and the Palestinians [sic] are once again negotiating their future relationship. One of the most difficult issues they confront is the status of Jerusalem. On September 22, [United States] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated Saudi King Abdullah on the occasion of his country's   read more ...

Summary ... The mainstream media is always quick to take any anti-Jewish stance on news stories, even before examining the evidence at hand. It's important to expose these phony reports (aka "fake news") and reveal the truth. It is understandably hard for people to believe the amount of violence   read more ...

A number of senior Palestinian [sic] officials who do not have much credibility among their own people are now trying to sell themselves to Israelis as "partners for peace." This is the same group of Palestinians who in the past advised Yasser Arafat to reject then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak's offer   read more ...

Summary ... Arab leaders falsely point to UN Resolution 194 as proof that Arab refugees have a 'right to return'. First of all, the refugee situation is a small part of the Resolution. And secondly, Resolution 194 makes no distinction between Arab refugees and Jewish refugees. Resolution 194,   read more ...

The word "occupation" has been used for many years now to describe the rule of Israel in Judea and Samaria (known as the "West Bank") and the Gaza district which Israel took from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and from Egypt respectively in the course of the Six Day War in 1967. In the distorted   read more ...

Summary ... In what can only be termed an incredible development, senior intelligence officers at US Central Command (CENTCOM) are recommending that Hezbollah and Hamas be designated as political parties instead of terrorist organizations. The stance is at once provocative, controversial and at   read more ...

Summary ... As the official "guardian" of the articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) consistently interprets them against Israel, no matter who is on the other side. In this case, by reclassifying terrorists as politicians, the ICRC knowingly   read more ...

Summary ... It's time for Israel to change its strategy and begin to emulate the convictions and many of the policies of its greatest and most courageous political figures and leaders, from Theodor Herzl to Ze'ev Jabotinsky to David Ben-Gurion to Golda Meir to Menachem Begin. No more Mr. Nice Guy.   read more ...